Life Sciences VCs in Portugal
Pharma, biotech, and drug discovery. Portugal has a handful of specialist funds here, plus generalists who do occasional deals.
LAST UPDATED: 2026-08-13
9
INVESTORS
36
PORTFOLIO COS
6
STAGES COVERED
ALL LIFE SCIENCES INVESTORS (9)
Portugal VenturesVC (Government)
€50K–€1.5M·BitSight, OutSystems, Barkyn, Jscrambler, Defined.ai
Pre-SeedSeedSeries A
Caixa CapitalCVC
€1M–€5M·Unbabel, Infraspeak, Amplemarket, Codacy, Veniam
SeedSeries AGrowth
Faber VenturesVC
Up to €2.5M·Sword Health, Unbabel, Codacy, Smartex, iLoF, YData, ATMOS Space Cargo
Pre-SeedSeedSeries A
PathenaVC
Primetag, HUUB, Exago
SeedSeries AGrowth
Bionova CapitalVC
Adapttech, Anybrain, CellmAbs
Early Stage
Biovance Capital PartnersVC
€1.5M–€6M·Mondego Bio
Series A+
C2 Capital PartnersVC (SCR)
Bluepharma (€30M)
Growth
Change PartnersVC (SCR)
GuestCentric, Exogenus Therapeutics
Series A
Hovione VenturesCVC
€200K–€1M·CellmAbs
Pre-SeedSeed
NOTABLE LIFE SCIENCES PORTFOLIO COMPANIES
Beat Therapeutics(Portugal Ventures)Biotrend↗(Portugal Ventures)Cellmabs(Portugal Ventures)Coimbra Genomics↗(Portugal Ventures)FastCompChem(Portugal Ventures)Genepredit↗(Portugal Ventures)Biomimetx(Caixa Capital)Exogenus(Caixa Capital)Biographica↗(Faber Ventures)Koa Biotech(Faber Ventures)Zymvol↗(Faber Ventures)Nostos Genomics(Faber Ventures)iLof↗(Faber Ventures)Bial↗(Explorer Investments)Hovione(Explorer Investments)Highlight Therapeutics(GED Ventures Portugal)PFx Biotech(GED Ventures Portugal)AceCann(Lince Capital)SilicoLife↗(BlueCrow Capital)SolasCure↗(Bionova Capital)Vaxdyn↗(Bionova Capital)Oxular↗(Bionova Capital)Laigo Bio(Biovance Capital Partners)Mondego Bio↗(Biovance Capital Partners)TEN63 Therapeutics(FundBox)Exogenus Therapeutics↗(3xP Global)Stemmatters(Beta Capital)Immunethep↗(Beta Capital)Sidefarma↗(Atena Equity Partners)Bluepharma(C2 Capital Partners)